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Sunday is the better day for any outdoor plans this weekend, though there is a chance for brief showers overnight and into Sunday morning.



More clouds and isolated showers Sunday, tropics bring more showers and storms 

<p>Meteorologist Grant Skinner here in the Weather Center. We'll keep a chance for some brief showers overnight and into our Sunday morning, but most of us will be drier with lingering cloud cover. Temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s to start the day on Sunday. Highs reaching to around 80 degrees for your Sunday afternoon, and we'll keep a chance for some isolated showers and brief storms. That rain hit around 20% through 12 o'clock, a 30% rain chance for the rest of the day, but it'll stay very isolated and that best chance will be long and east of I-9. closer to the weather front will be. Our next weather maker will be really Monday through the middle portion of the week of an area of low pressure to the northwest. Uh, we have that we will likely be in Milda off the southeast coast, and then we'll also have Humberto, which will be back to the east, that will help to steer a tropical system. Uh, current forecast models have it going north and eventually turning to the east, uh, off the South Carolina, North Carolina coastline, so it could solve for a period of time with that, we could see. Periods of rain. So if it could be heavy at times, so we could see some localized flooding also towards the coastline, we could see some storms and the possibility for some strong wind gusts. So we have to watch for those threats as the end of the first half of the week. Our highest rain chance looking like Tuesday at 80%. Those highest rainfall totals have shifted further south. The best chance to see those higher rainfall amounts are going to be closer to Wilmington, down through Myrtle Beach, along the coastline of South Carolina, further north towards the Triangle. Even back towards Greensboro, Charlotte, and now towards the mountains as well, which is a good sign for the mountains, uh, only showing a quarter of an inch to around 0.5 inch all the way through the next 7 days, while Raleigh down towards Fayetteville is now 1/4 to 2 inches. But still, we could see changes with that overall track, which means we could see changes in the total rainfall amounts. So stay tuned for those changes. This system so to get better organized first. In a Tuesday though, likely our best rain chance, we could see some local Flooding that best threat is going to be in southern portions of our area, so level 2 of 4 risk in place for much of the area for that threat for localized flooding. So we're watching for tropical impacts during the first half of next week. The best chance to see those tropical impacts will likely be closer to the coastline, but we could still see some localized flooding inland. Temperatures are on average for your Sunday, and then cooling in the low to mid 70s for the first half of the coming week, the upper 60s and low 70s as we head towards Thursday and Friday.</p>

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